Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sciomyzidae? - Belgium > Loxocera (Psilidae)
Posted by Jeroen K on 18-08-2015 20:42
#1
16/08/2015, Het Rood, Kapellen (Belgium). ID'able? Thanks in advance.
Edited by Jeroen K on 18-08-2015 22:21
Posted by John Carr on 18-08-2015 21:54
#2
Not Sciomyzidae. When Sciomyzidae have long antennae the basal segments are long. In this case the last segment (first flagellomere aka postpedicel) is long.
Looks like
Loxocera (Psilidae). You will find similar antennae in
Lauxania (Lauxaniidae), but that genus has more bristles.
Posted by Jeroen K on 18-08-2015 22:20
#3
Thanks a lot for the correction and the explanation.
Posted by Jeroen K on 22-08-2015 13:22
#4
Are there any views that might help to get a species ID or is this impossible from a picture?
Posted by Sundew on 23-08-2015 22:48
#5
Loxocera is a bit tricky - compare
http://www.dipter...tford.html and the discussion in
http://www.dipter...d_id=62718. As the humeri are black, the frons mainly dark, and the face below the antennae apparently yellow, I'd vote for
L. albiseta. In this case the arista should be distinctly plumose. Shatalkin & Merz (2010) (
http://biostor.or...nce/134801) treat this species together with some other European ones as belonging to genus
Imantimyia.
Regards, Sundew